Ambrose’s writing style is straightforward and merely describes Easy Company’s history as he understood it through facts and interviews. Ambrose narrates their missions at Brécourt Manor and Carentan to show that their reputation for bravery in the Army was well deserved. It occurred to me that – despite Ambrose’s pervasive popularity as the Godfather of Dad Books – my inclinations were correct. Liebgott leads a trio that tracks down and summarily executes a concentration camp commandant at a farm.

The book manages to take you into the thick of the action, into the ditches and the gun fire better than the show. Taylor, former Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division, then attached to the XXI Corps, agreed.This book is written more like a bunch of short essays from many viewpoints, that together, makes a whole. These young men, who had never left home before enlisting, now can appreciate the distinction between Germans and Nazis. I was cold when they were cold, tired with them, hungry with them, and relieved when they left the front lines. They hint at reservoirs of jumbled memories that combine the fear of battle and the horror of death and the pain of lost friends with the love of their brothers.

He has followed this up with "moral superiority" also being based on better methods in training, selection for command and democracy producing better soldiers than Nazi Germany.Consider the above comments on the Battle of the Bulge and then later on page 191, after the Siege of Bastogne is broken we get lots of further Pop History for Patriots with some nonsense about the US army lacking man power because they did not raise enough Infantry Divisions to fight seemingly "lavish deferments" ( I kid you not) by the Germans pre-war in the areas of Industry and Farm Labour, and Fathers! A suspicious hint of this is inadvertently given in the book's afterword (would putting it in the foreword have scared off the serious military history enthusiasts? They were young men who sacrificed their youths to do a dangerous job that their country asked them to do. What these men endured, what they sacrificed, and their bravery in the face of all the death that surrounded them, are things no one who has never been to war can even comprehend. Ambrose's histories (but I am okay with that because I know that is who he is before going into any of his books.

Dangerous sentiments of that kind have gotten a lot of young, naive boys needlessly killed since the dawn of humankind. I didn’t know him personally, but in interviews he seemed like a nice man, congenial and friendly, who often charmingly mentioned his family in his books.Dye (who portrays Colonel Robert Sink) instructed the actors in a 10-day boot camp at the Longmoor Military Camp in Hampshire, culminating with parachute training at RAF Brize Norton. The timeline and events depicted in the series stay fairly true to the book, showing the birth of the legendary Easy Company as it goes through basic training, enters the war and fights through an almost endless array of seemingly impossible missions until the European theater came to a close. Band Of Brothers' showrunner Erik Jendresen on US TV industry: 'the fear of failure is extraordinary' ". First off, let me just say that words cannot express my gratitude for the sacrifice that these soldiers made, in this case, not for their country, but for the world.